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Issues in the Administration of Tariff-Rate Import Quotas in the Agreement on Agriculture in the WTO: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Harry de Gorter
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics at Cornell University
Ian M. Sheldon
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics at Cornell University
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The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) put in place a set of rules that may, in the future, have significant effects on the conditions for market access for agricultural products. Bound tariffs replaced non-tariff barriers in most cases, and rules facing exporters are now more transparent. In addition, minimum access commitments were made through the use of import quotas, with a lower tariff for imports within the quota. Although agriculture is now integrated into the multilateral trading system, most commentators agree that the URAA did little actually to liberalize agricultural trade. Bound out-of-quota tariffs remain very high while quotas have resulted in the institutionalization of rents for specific countries and firms or state trading enterprises, thereby potentially increasing resistance by these stakeholders to any trade liberalization initiatives.

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Issues in the Administration of Tariff-Rate Import Quotas in the Agreement on Agriculture in the WTO
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Copyright © 2000 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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